Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,610 pages of information and 246,167 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Societe Alsacienne de Constructions Mecaniques

From Graces Guide
1919 1/10 scale model of a large SACM gas engine which ran on blast furnace gas. On display at the Musée des Arts et Métiers
1923. Paris-Orleans Railway - Eight-Coupled Tank Engine.
1965.

Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, more conveniently known as SACM, of Mulhouse, Alsace, France. Engineering company which produced railway locomotives, textile and printing machinery, stationary steam engines, large gas engines, diesel engines, machine tools, boilers, lifting equipment, firearms and mining equipment.

1891 Description and illustration of horizontal steam pumping engines constructed c.1885 for the Hirzbach pumping station[1]

Exhibited a 600 HP turbine at the 1910 Brussels Exhibition.[2]

1928 Part of Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston was combined with locomotive builder SACM to form Alsthom; the name was derived from ALSacienne-THOMson

SACM also produced the first atomic reactor at Marcoule.

1965 The agent in the UK was David E. F. Vickers

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] 'The Steam Engine : A treatise on Steam Engines and Boilers' by Daniel Kinnear Clark. Vol 2, pp.332-6
  2. ZVDI, 18 June 1910